Steven van de Vijver (1977) is working as a family doctor and director of the Family Medicine Department at the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In addition he works as a Senior Advisor at the Amsterdam Health & Technology Institute (www.ahti.nl) where he is guiding several innovative projects in the field of primary care.

In the past he worked for Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and received his PhD during his three year stay at the African Population and Health Research Center (www.aphrc.org) on the design, implementation and evaluation of cardiovascular prevention for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya.

Currently his specific interest as a medical doctor and researcher is to increase universal health coverage through digital health. In what way can digital innovations diminish instead of increase the existing growing inequality in health. This ranges from the development and implementation of a mobile medical health record for refugees in Greece till the digital support of cardiovascular and mental health prevention for vulnerable populations in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost.